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Soft Moon ShiningSample Poems
SOFT MOON SHINING
My beloved Divine Mother
Dance with me
under the soft moon shining
in the wide open fields
far beyond the toil and trouble
of my busy mind
Dance with me
before the night grows old
while the winds of love
still bow the grasses
and the coyotes cry for you
to step their way
Dance with me my beloved
while the Mystery's Edge
still flirts in the shadow
of your radiant light
THE BOOKMother Kali
Place your seal on this book of mortal existence
now emptied of words
from crying to you
I have given this book to you
to do with as you wish
as there is no one left
who wants to write in it
Having tasted your Divine Love
what else can be of any importance?
I am your laughing schoolboy
playing hooky from the ceaseless pounding
of facts and names
And I am running headlong to swim in your river of immortal bliss
carelessly flinging these clothes
of concerns and considerations to the ground as I go
HUGGING ARMS
My beautiful Divine Mother
This universe is your body
alive and blushing
with cosmic streams
and rivers of love
I bow to the rocks
ancient siblings of boundless love
I bow to the sun and the sailing planets
who whistle songs of love
to one another
from deep within the inner spheres
And I bow to every atom
eternally in love with every other atom
all of them whirling dervishes
ecstatic in their dance
of joyous coexistence
My heart melts at the sight
of this endless love feast
And I deeply regret
that my hugging arms
are so few and so short
DRAW ANOTHER CUP OF JOY
Compassionate Mother
who's grace is beyond eternity
My friends and I will draw another cup of joy
from the wellspring
of your radiant heart
And raise it to our lips with a shout
Victory to the Mother!
Victory to the Mother of all beings!
And when this tavern of divine revelry
closes in the morning's wee hours
We will all walk home arm in arm
with faltering steps
to our conventional minds
staggering with the intoxication of love
and waking the neighbors
shouting like bugle blowers
Victory to the Mother!
Victory to the Mother of the universe!
THE PIRATE
Compassionate Mother Kali
You are the stealthy pirate
that sails the seas
of our mindless
hum drum
do-what-others-do existence
With your prey firmly fixed
in your steady gaze
you unfurl your black flag
with skull and cross bones flying in the sun
and stalk our aimless minds
which sail like so many wooden ships
from one meaningless port
to the next
What a sight you are!
With your disheveled long free-flowing black hair
blowing effortlessly in the wind
you direct the universes and all their beings
from the bow of your ship
Your songs of renunciation
detachment
and abandonment of the blind herd mentality
echo endlessly
across the waters of mortality
You are the very spirit of freedom
that dances in reckless unconcerned bliss
overpowering the prim and the proper
the prince and the pauper
trampling all self-imposed scripts of limitation
Victory is always certain
as you storm our ship
that is heavy laden
with the cargo of "I" and "mine"
Most flee in terror
at the sight of your approaching pirate flag
but I have been hunting you!
I am eager for you to steal away
my deluded self interests
and set ablaze my wooden ship
of self-imposed limitations
Mother Kali
I have spotted you in my telescope
just on the horizon of plurality
and I have given the order
to set sail at once!
Day and night
I will watch you closely
not even blinking
so that you will not be able to slip away
I and my motley crew
of mental musings, attachments and fantasies
are ready to join
your pirate band of Divine Marauders
From then on
there will be no captain but you
Like a divine Robin Hood
who sails the oceans of mortal existence
you steal from the bloated opulence
of our wandering thoughts
and give to our thirsting hearts
which long for your
radiant all consuming love
HAVE YOU SEEN OUR MOTHER?
Brother Wind
Have you seen our Mother?
Was she sitting alone and silent
on some lofty snow capped peak
as you crossed the Rocky Mountains
on your way to caress
the vast prairie grass lands?
If you see our most beautiful Mother
please tell her I am calling her
and that I can no longer contain my love
Sister Earth
Have you felt our Mother's footsteps
as she walked across your endless lands
planting the seeds
of creation and dissolution?
Have you heard her singing her sweet song
of compassion and love?
If so, tell her that her child
who loves her so very much
has awakened from his long nap
and yearns to hug his Mother once again
Sister Ocean
Has our Mother passed through your rivers today
on her way to direct the waters of eternity
up into her garden of clouds
floating in the deep blue sky of primal awareness?
Or have you felt her moving in the unfathomable depths
of your inky black belly
where she often goes to stir
the boiling cauldron of destiny?
If you know where our sweetest of Mothers is
please tell her
that I am unable to stop the flood of tears
that rises from the well of my deep longing
and that I yearn to hold her
and to be held by her again
Brother Sun
Nothing at all escapes your warm life giving gaze!
Please look all around now from your high place
and tell me if you see our Mother's dancing form
as she goes about her many tasks
- can you catch a glimpse of her shadow
as it plays on the steep cliffs of revelation?
If so, please tell her to come for her child
who stands now in his crib
gripping tightly and shaking
the constraining rail of the ego
crying Mother! Mother! Mother!
unable to find contentment in anything but her
If you see her
please kiss her affectionately for me
and tell her to come quickly
as I am through sleeping and dreaming
and only want to be with her
WARRIOR OF SILENCE
Mother Kali
Warrior of silence
you hold the crackling thunder of emptiness
in your begging bowl of endless time
Your radiant blackness
illuminates the death of mortality
and into this ancient cauldron of mystery
you direct the concentrated attention
of your awestruck children
By gazing into your fiery eyes of dissolution
your children embrace the final surrender
of finite existence
Having attained the totality
of your wisdom path
they are granted liberation
from birth and death
once and for all
My precious Mother Kali
I am weeping for you
to help this child
as I have no resource for liberation
that I can call my own
Having been lost
in the morass of egocentricity for eons
I have nowhere else to go
and I have fallen
so deeply in love with you
Mother, I pray
that you will not turn your back to me
as I am still a small child
who can only cling to your midnight feet
like the pale silvery moon
that clings to the dark velvet void
of endless space
Compassionate Mother
show me your warm sweet motherly smile
or show me your terrifying
demon destroying face
with red tongue extended
and crazed blazing eyes!
Both are the same to this child
who loves you so intensely
Mother, why can I not stop weeping for you?
Is it your play
that I am me
and you are you?
You have taken everything
O Great Destroyer Goddess
You have taken my pride
and my will to live without you
Mother, please grant me just one desire
grant that I might be held tightly in your arms
and then let me whisper, "I love you"
again and again
until eternity itself is flooded
with the tears of my love and affection
Available in a 260 page 7"x 9" paperback
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